New law ensures pathway to health care for transgender minors in Maine
A new law signed on July 11 by Maine Governor Janet Mills will allow transgender minors who have reached a minimum age of 16, have a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and are...
SCOTUS decision ‘is not the end of efforts to push LGBTQ+ people and couples...
Despite the US Supreme Court's ruling based on a "narrow exception to a state nondiscrimination law" allowing a Colorado web designer to refuse service to LGBTQ+ people, the Boston-based GLBTQ Legal Advocates...
Middleborough, MA middle-schooler goes to court over ‘free speech’ right to wear anti-trans slogans...
Lawyers from the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Massachusetts Family Institute have filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Middleborough, Massachusetts, seventh-grader whose school would not allow him to wear a t-shirt...
Maine lawmakers advance bill to allow gender-affirming care for teens 16 and older without...
Maine's Joint Standing Committee on Judiciary voted this week to advance legislation that would allow minors who are at least 16 to access gender-affirming hormone therapy without the consent of their parents,...
Rhode Island Senate passes bill to faciliate adoption for LGBTQ+ families
The Rhode Island Senate last week voted unanimously to pass S 0121, a bill that will streamline the process for confirmatory adoption and make it more accessible for LGBTQ+ parents to ensure security...
Vermont enacts most comprehensive trans health care protections to date
This just in from GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defendants (GLAD):
Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed into law two bills — HB 89 and SB 37 — protecting access...
ME parent files federal suit over middle school not disclosing child’s gender ID
Despite a state privacy statute and federal law protecting students' privacy, the mother of a middle school student in New Castle, Maine has filed a federal lawsuit against her 13-year-old child's school...
Texas court order ‘will increase HIV transmission’ across the United States
Last week a federal judge in Texas issued an order to block an Affordable Care Act requirement that ensures the availability for preventive medications like PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV) at no...
Rhode Island lawmakers consider legislation to protect LGBTQ+ families
House Judiciary Committee members last week heard testimony on a bill (H 5226) that would provide a crucial next step in protecting LGBTQ+ families in Rhode Island, something that is urgently needed...
Vermont House passes transgender health, abortion access protections
The Vermont House of Representatives this past Friday voted in favor of legislation that defines reproductive care and essential transgender health care as legally protected health care activity in the state.
